above and beyond the call of duty

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Originally Posted by tw

I am completely befuddled why you had to look up what was a well publicized story in 2001. Why look up what was commonly and widely reported

I remember the news stories about it. It seemed at the time that it was much ado about nothing, but I was disappointed in the democrats that pulled the prank, because it was pretty juvenile

Originally Posted by tw

- especially when it was later discovered to intentionally make future employment for Democratic White House employees difficult?

That part of the story is one that I never heard. Can you point to some references on this? Who discovered this? Or was it just conjecture at the time?